Came for the pumpkins, stayed for the spooky music.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

9 ай бұрын

And the pumpkins are so spooky they’re coming for you!

You have no idea how much joy this gave me. This is EXACTLY what I want to do when I get land!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

@Katie-ry4lj

Жыл бұрын

Same

Congrats man! It’s no easy task to grow a successful pumpkin patch. Great work.

I absolutely love this patch! This is exactly something that I hope to do someday!

I had a pumpkin too

Your videos are a visual treat, my friend. The attention to detail and creative flair make each one a masterpiece. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

There are pumpkins... EVERYWHERE

This is amazing Lucas! You grew sooo many good-looking pumpkins! Looks like a lot of work to move all those pumpkins to line them up at the end.

In Australia the major pumpkin we grow is the Queensland Blue which we roast, boil, mash as a major vegetable. It is picked when the stem dies off.

Wow.!!!! that's awesome.

Wowza! Amazing harvest! It'd be awesome if you could sell them. Wouldn't be hard for a better price (any money you make would be a bonus), or I suppose you could donate them, if there's a church or group you'd be comfortable supporting. You had a great year with this project!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I sold most of them and kept some for Halloween!!!

@Willow_and_Sage

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrowsbestyt How much did you sell them for?

@southbridgeforestHOA

Жыл бұрын

@@Willow_and_Sage big ones are $15 in the grocery store! 40 years ago I sold them as a kid for $5 each!

I also hope to be frolicking around all 9 of my plants to celebrate a first successful pumpkin harvest this Fall lol. Can’t wait! 🎃

*takes notes*

Lucas. I'm a grower in Chicago. I'm starting a pumpkin patch. It's 120ft x 70 feet. Questions..... How far apart do you plant your plant starts? How far apart are your rows? Do you ever direct sow?go you water constantly? We just sent up the patch w all wood chips. We will be planting into mounds of compost in the spring. I'm in Chicago zone 5b. Please and thank you.

Amazing pumpkin harvest! YOU ARE THE PUMPKIN KING!!! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Congratulations Lucas! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Great JOB Lucas ... They're GORGEOUS !!!: ) That Orange Color is so refreshing looking. Thanks for showing your Bounty, truly Amazing !

So impressed with your harvest and how your garden turned out! Especially love the pumpkins! Nice halloween music to go with the pumpkin harvest!

Beautiful harvest! 🤩

I always love watching your new uploads,,, beautiful bounty and inspiring 🥰🥰🥰

They all came out great.

A very rewarding harvest

Amazing seeing them all lined up!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

Took me a while to do that but I thought it was worth it. Glad someone else does too :)

Congratulations on a job well done!

That's amazing 👍

Pretty impressive harvest!! Whatever you're going to do with them, enjoy :)

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Sold most, carved the rest for Halloween! 🎃

Start at each end and work them to the middle, it’s quicker

awesome produce!!! :)

Such a blessed harvest! Are you planning to plant more pumpkins next year?

What a great harvest of pumpkins! And what a lot of work to put them together like you did to put on the channel. The pics were amazing. What did you end up doing with them all? I love growing pumpkins more than anything else, I think. This year (2022) we got nipped by an early frost last Wed. here in Poland so many of my plants died - at least parts of them did. I did harvest quite a few, but hopefully they will just continue to ripen close by the house. They aren't nearly as gorgeous as yours though!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Becky! Your words are too kind :) I ended up keeping a bunch for Halloween and selling the rest at a local produce auction. That's too bad about the frost, but there's always next season!

@beckypetersen2680

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrowsbestyt Yes...gardeners are perennial optimists...:)

Nice pumpkin 🎃

Great

That was AWESOME, So I have a question for you or any Pumkinner's , So far I've asked quite a few growers who are posting information and so far no one has commented back. So help please ! here's the question what do you do with all the vines after harvest?

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Just let them rot on the field

Wow! That's a lot of pumpkin and I'm just happy to watch, I want to harvest many pumpkins too but me last year I got only 2pumpkin🤣🤣🤣

@JakesYoutube3487

3 ай бұрын

same

Great video, thanks for sharing. I was curious about your method of using the black plastic as opposed to using herbicides. We are looking to start our pumpkin farm this year and are debating herbicides verse plastic. Also was curious about how you actually planted the seeds. Did you simply do by punching holes in the plastic and planting by hand or did you use a mechanical planter of some sort. Thanks again!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! I highly recommend using plastic. I had to use pesticides once for cucumber beetles but I try to keep things as toxin-free as possible. No herbicides were used. It is a pain to install and remove if you do it manually like I did, so rent/buy a machine or don't bother. I sowed the seeds in cell trays and transplanted the plugs by hand after cutting holes in the plastic mulch using a knife. My method was extremely labour-intensive so can't stress enough to get the right tools/equipment. Definitely check out my half acre playlist for more detail: kzread.info/head/PLBMgEHe5hSghZtrVvZ-HfKznF1IMxkNI6

Maybe I missed it, but what variety are the white? Such a fun size and beautifully white!

@lucasgrowsbestyt

8 ай бұрын

Blanco!

Well done! I have a question. How did you keep from mowing over the vines in the walking paths?? Do you move the vines while you're mowing? I keep having issues with this....and if i don't mow, well the weeds just TAKE OVER! HELP!! ha ha

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

I guess most of these plants were short/medium vine rather than long vine varieties, so they didn't creep onto the walkways much. There were a few casualties though haha. I think farmers use herbicides to keep the weeds down. But then again, I've been to pumpkin patches that are full of weeds.

How often were you watering?

well done I have a question please..how did you do the watering for all thos pumpkins ? did you have a drip irrigation system underneath the plastic ?

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

I just watered the plants by hand several times early in the season, and afterwards let nature take its course. Luckily we had some decent rain last season. Here is a video showing my half acre garden irrigation setting: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p4Z1x8xtlNnZcbA.html

@saviourattard6878

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrowsbestyt wow thats impressive !!!. I come from Malta and summer season is very hot here. I have a couple of pumpkin plants in a field that I cannot water very often was wondering how you manged to be this successful with your crops. I guess summer in canada is not that bad. Well done again and keep up the good work with your vids !!!

I wish can grow pumpkin here in Philippines

Looks like you had a pretty successful harvest. Would you be willing to share the name of the company where you buy your seeds?

@lucasgrowsbestyt

9 ай бұрын

Johnny's Selected Seeds

Well done. Where can I order for the seeds please.

Использую посадки тыквы для борьбы с сорняками на своей даче, для чего сажаю длинноплетистую тыкву. А так как вкус тыквы не люблю, а только люблю жаренные семена, то сею только один сорт Голосемянную, у которой семена без оболочки и огромная листва, которая полностью покрывает землю и не дает расти сорнякам.

How many plants per row to get the 20 plus big orange pumpkins?

@southbridgeforestHOA

Жыл бұрын

he said he had 30 of the white pumpkin plants in a row, so I assume he planted them all about 30 per row so that means rows 1 through 9 each only had 1 pumpkin per plant! I would of guessed more. so maybe I am wrong.

Nice video .I bought 1 jack o lantern for Halloween from super market in Sydney cost me 17 dollars .how much are yours.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Like $4 for a large one

so you got 182 regular pumpkins, 36 pie, & 80 white ones for a total of about 300 on 1/8 acre in 11 rows! with no irrigation. I bet you could of gotten double that if you had irrigation. Pretty impressive. I want to do this at a 1/4 acre at my kids elementary school. how much labor per week should I expect? I was thinking of laying down landscape woven plastic fabric so there woudl not be any weeds. Not sure if that's a good idea since the vines self root though. Maybe lay it donw for the first month and then remove it so the vines have a good head start.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

If you aren't using herbicide I would say weed barrier is a must. I wouldn't remove it until after harvest time. Once things are planted and the vines start to take off, not much labour is required.

And here I am... waiting for my two pumpkin plants to grow those three sad pumpkins big enough lol. So disappointing. I did everything one is supposed to do. 😪😭

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

It's tricky, don't give up!!! 😃👍

Did you manage to sell them all

@lucasgrowsbestyt

2 жыл бұрын

Most... kept some for myself 😆

what variety is the white one

@lucasgrowsbestyt

6 ай бұрын

Blanco F1.

but why do made long difference between plants? Beautiful farm though,your answer is very important to me.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

I realize that I could have spaced the rows closer together, but this was my first time growing pumpkins on a larger scale. Good to know for the future!

@peaceandlove5214

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrowsbestyt you have beautiful land If it was me I would plant legumes in between.

no wild jack rabbits / wild life to come and destroy ?

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Nope! But I did have some issues with cucumber beetles.

You could donate some pumpkins to a zoo. Many animals will eat pumpkins including elephants and tortoises.

Donate to school in need. Some kids have never seen a real pumpkin before.

Dude...ugh...WHY didn't you teach us viewers anything about how you grew them??!!!! You mentioned you tried 3 previous times and were all pretty much failures, but this piece of land you rented and grew them in..you were finally successful. Super. But who really cares if we don't know who you are?? You need to TEACH the viewer, what specifically did you do that got you such good looking pumpkins?? I came on here to learn...so let me help you possibly help me. -Did you start from seed? Plant spacing at start? -What soil did you use? Did you dig a whole and backfill with just field dirt? WHAT DID YOU DO/USE..AND HOW? -Did you control the plant growth with trimming? Add nutrients? If so .. when and what type and how much? -Did you rototill the soil before planting? Amend of some time used? -How did you water them, and how often? -Obviously you used black plastic sheeting. Roots like that kind of heat? Get the picture? Lol. Please help bro..yur pumpkins look amazing. I'm jealy...and annoyed.

@lucasgrowsbestyt

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha! A future video, I think. The truth is, I didn't do much. There was no magic here, besides the fact that we got decent rain last season. Cruddy farm soil was used, just tilled to a depth of about 6". Hardy, hybrid seed was sown in cells and transplanted to the field in early June. Check out my other half acre videos to get an idea of the process. Ultimately just planted and watched 'em grow :)